Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

- Thomas Carlyle

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

Quote:Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, nor a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end. And yet, when I sat for Fellowship, but for the boil on my bottom... The rest, an ordure. The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday mourns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps. And the poor old lousy old earth my earth and my father's and my mother's and my father's father's and my mother's mother's and my father's mother's and my mother's father's and my father's mother's father's and my mother's father's mother's and my father's mother's mother's and my mother's father's father's and my father's father's mother's and my mother's mother's father's and my father's father's father's and my mother's mother's mother's and other people's fathers' and mothers'. An excrement. The crocuses and the larch turning green every year a week before the others and the pastures red with uneaten sheep's placentas and the long summer days and the newmown hay and the wood·pigeon in the morning and the cuckoo in the afternoon and the corncrake in the evening and the wasps in the jam and the smell of the gorse and the look of the gorse and the apples falling and the children walking in the dead leaves and the larch turning brown a week before the others and the chestnuts falling and the howling winds and the sea breaking over the pier and the first fires and the hooves on the road and the consumptive postman whistling The Roses Are Blooming in Picardy and the standard oillamp and of course the snow and to he sure the sleet and bless your heart the slush and every fourth year the February debacle and the endless April showers and the crocuses and then the whole bloody business starting all over again. A turd. And if I could begin it all over again, knowing what I know now, the result would be the same. And if I could begin again a third time, knowing what I would know then, the result would be the same. And if I could begin it all over again a hundred times, knowing each time a little more than the time before, the result would always be the same, and the hundredth life as the first, and the hundred lives as one. A cat's flux. But at this rate we shall he here all night.

-- Samuel Beckett

Quote:To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

- Steve Jobs

cheerfully lives one who knows himself to dupe ...

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

--Tony Robbins

Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Quote:Love is just a moment of giving and marriage is when we admit our parents were right.

-- Billy Bragg

Be arrogant with arrogant people, this is the only language they respect - as they confound kindness with weakness

-Paulo Coelho

Quote: I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

BouldRake wrote:

Quote:Love is just a moment of giving and marriage is when we admit our parents were right.

-- Billy Bragg

"How can you lie there and think of England, when you don't even know who's in the TEAM"

Billy Bragg

Plus practically everything he's ever written.

Quote:Plus practically everything he's ever written.

Yes. He's second only to The Doctor in number of quotes in my quote DB.

True philosophy and social comment always guaranteed.

Only got to wait 20 days anyway for some Dr eyebrow quotes.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

- Jim Rohn

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

--Vince Lombardi

I couldn't find a Wes Craven quote on life and death. Tony Benn was way easier to lament, but this'll do.

Quote:A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

-- Wes Craven

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

- Henry Ford

Quote:To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

-- Miguel Indurain